Marvel Cinematic Universe - Timeline

Captain France said:
No, Hurricane: If you listen in AoS-S02E01, Agent Carter and the Howling Commando are working for SSR.. like in CA:TFA.
In the end of the One-Shot, Carter and Stark will create S.H.I.E.L.D., so the flashback of AoS can't be after the One-Shot.

In order:
CA:TFA
AoS 2x01
Agent Carter The Series
One-Shot
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Whoops, I wasn't too sure about that. But yeah, you're spot on. Thanks!
 
Captain France said:
No, Hurricane: If you listen in AoS-S02E01, Agent Carter and the Howling Commando are working for SSR.. like in CA:TFA. In the end of the One-Shot, Carter and Stark will create S.H.I.E.L.D., so the flashback of AoS can't be after the One-Shot. In order: CA:TFA AoS 2x01 Agent Carter The Series One-Shot
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Exactly.



Anyway, Cap France, would love to get your input on the layout for AoS Season 1, Thor - TDW, and CA-TFA, given the September dates shown in AoS's Pilot episode, the October 12, 2013 date seen in CA-TWS (which requires squishing the first 2/3 of AoS Season 1, Thor - TDW, and CA-TWS into a span of time that lasts little more than a month... I mean, I guess it's possible, just seems unlikely), the mention by Coulson in AoS 2x01 that Talbot has been chasing them all winter (which works against the air date/film release placement approach in those cases), and the mention by Simmons (I think it was Simmons) that Skye had been with them for a few months in the mid portion of AoS Season 1 (can't remember the specific episode, have to rewatch Season 1 to narrow that down).

I am leaning towards using the dates from Cap-TWS and the mention in AoS 2x01 as being correct, which would place AoS Ep 1-7 and Thor-TDW, and AoS Ep 8-14 in September to early October, and AoS Ep 15-16, CA-TWS, AoS Ep 17-22 likely also in October to November.

That would make sense given Coulson's mention of being chased by Talbot all Winter, since AoS Season 2 seems to pick up 2-3 months after AoS Season 1.
 
DIrishB said:
That would make sense given Coulson's mention of being chased by Talbot all Winter, since AoS Season 2 seems to pick up 2-3 months after AoS Season 1.
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If that's the case, than I'm willing to bet that they'll sandwich this entire season into a few months like the last, and have it fit right in with Age of Ultron next year. That is if Age of Ultron happens in May when it's released.
 
Spoon_Wielder said:
If that's the case, than I'm willing to bet that they'll sandwich this entire season into a few months like the last, and have it fit right in with Age of Ultron next year. That is if Age of Ultron happens in May when it's released.
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You're doing a new edit right?
 
Spoon_Wielder said:
If that's the case, than I'm willing to bet that they'll sandwich this entire season into a few months like the last, and have it fit right in with Age of Ultron next year. That is if Age of Ultron happens in May when it's released.
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Yeah. I'm sure they'll do some form of crossover with Age of Ultron, so at least the latter portion of the season will likely occur in May, 2014.

But the plus side, is that unlike Season 1, there's only one film Season 2 is crossing over with (Age of Ultron) instead of two (Thor-TDW and CA-TWS).

That should make it a bit easier in terms of laying out the presumed timeline for the show's second season. Plus, it allows for a greater span of time as opposed to stuffing everything into only a couple months.
 
Ok, updated everything with the more precise dating afforded by placing CA-TWS and the last portion of AoS - Season 1 in October, 2013.

It does squish the events a lot, having AoS Eps 1-7, Thor-TDW, AoS Eps 8-16, CA-TWS, and AoS Eps 17-22 all squeezed into the period of time between September 8 - October 21 (literally just under a month and a half), but its the only way to make sense of the mention by Coulson that Talbot had been chasing them all winter, as well as the firm on screen date seen in CA-TWS. It does force us to ignore a mention in Season 1 that several months had passed (made sometime around the middle of the season if I recall correctly, I still can't remember the specific episode), but the films always come first in terms of canon, and the CA-TWS date combined with the "winter" comment has my mind made up.

This does also force me to confirm the one page Twitter comic as non-canon, due to the hard date given in that page, combined with the fact it mentions Fury as still being director of SHIELD, though by that time Coulson was director. There's also the fact Fitz's brain damage make it unlikely he's been working on an AI.
 
In CA:TWS, at 39'44'' and 40'28'', there is a date on the blackboard: 4/14/13. I think the date isn't for Fury's decease, but I don't think someone would let the same inscription on a board for 6 months.. These inscriptions are like timetable or post-it, no? They are erased after a short time generally.

I must watch again Thor 2 and Cap 2, if I see more dates.

In AoS S02E01, there is SHIELD OS 22-09 everywhere on their screens, I don't know if it's only the software version or if it's a date.. must check that with future episodes.
 
Captain France said:
In CA:TWS, at 39'44'' and 40'28'', there is a date on the blackboard: 4/14/13. I think the date isn't for Fury's decease, but I don't think someone would let the same inscription on a board for 6 months.. These inscriptions are like timetable or post-it, no? They are erased after a short time generally.
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Never noticed that but just checked and you're right. It's during the scene just after Fury "dies", and Widow and Cap are staring at his body in the room. It's written on a dry erase board on the right hand side of the screen.

However, we know that can't be correct for two reasons. One, the date shown just after this, and confirmed to be "live", meaning it's that day's date, shows October 12, 2013. Second, AoS's Pilot episode shows the September 9, 2013 date as the date when the security badges were distributed, and given the fact AoS 1x01 definitely occurs before both Thor-TDW and CA-TWS, that can't be the case.

My explanation is its a room in the hospital morgue that doesn't get used very often, perhaps used specifically for high-ranking politicians, military, and dignitaries. Since Fury is a general and leader of SHIELD, he certainly qualifies. Figure the last time it was used was about 6 months previous to the events of CA-TWS. I'll just be using that as my own personal explanation.

I must watch again Thor 2 and Cap 2, if I see more dates. In AoS S02E01, there is SHIELD OS 22-09 everywhere on their screens, I don't know if it's only the software version or if it's a date.. must check that with future episodes.
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I'd say it's the software version, since it reads OS 22.09 (OS stands for operating system).
 
So I decided to re watch the season and count one by one the days that we see on screen to see how close the dates line up if we compress the episodes to run one after another. Where possible the end of one episode is the same day as the beginning of the next episode. To compress the timeline as brief as possible its assumed that THOR 2 Greenwich battle and AOS s1e07's end on the same day. As you can see we have 2 too many days. Or perhaps I missed something.


September 15, 2013
AOS s1e03 0:00:00 (its implied that Skye has been training for at least 1 day previous if not more) we can assume the first day was the same day that Fury was fixing the BUS at the end of the last episode.

September 16, 2013
AOS s1e03 0:08:40 Malta night scenes are considered to be part of this day since its 8 hours ahead of Colorado

September 17, 2013
AOS s1e03 0:20:29
AOS s1e04 0:00:00 Assumes Subway Diamond thief happens during the final events of the previous episode. This is not directly contradicted.

September 18, 2013
AOS s1e04 0:03:32 subway diamond thief events occurred "yesterday" possible 2nd day midway through episode as characters change clothes.

September 19, 2013
AOS s1e04 0:21:12 starts in the early am

September 20, 2013
AOS s1e04 0:40:43
AOS s1e05 0:00:00 Assumes Night in Hong Kong (could be on the same day as last of the previous episode

September 21, 2013
AOS s1e05 0:04:22 Morning on bus (kidnapped late last night)

September 22, 2013
AOS s1e05 0:19:40 Day in Austin to Day in Hong Kong transition to night in Hong Kong, sky gets the wrist band.

September 23, 2013
AOS s1e05 0:39:59 Daylight can be viewed on the wall
AOS s1e06 0:00:00 assumes Campout at night on the same day as the last part of the previous episode)

September 24, 2013
AOS s1e06 0:02:28 Morning on the bus after campout (its implied that its been at least a few days and Skye has been on good behavior)

September 25, 2013
AOS s1e06 0:19:38

September 26, 2013
AOS s1e07 0:00:00 Morning

September 27, 2013
AOS s1e07 0:26:07 Morning
Thor 2 battle

September 28, 2013
AOS s1e08 0:00:00 Implied that its been at least a couple days past Thor 2 since the pagan cult has been "growing since the incident in Greenwich" In reality this should likely be more than a day but the timeline doesnt allow for this.

September 29, 2013
Thor 2 breakfast credit scene/collector
AOS s1e08 0:35:46 Morning at church ends in hotel

September 30, 2013
AOS s1e09 0:00:00 Daytime in Utah

October 1, 2013
AOS s1e09 0:01:44 Morning in Ireland (ward implies that this is their second morning together) considering night time all part of this day

October 2, 2013
AOS s1e10 0:00:00 Morning at prison through sunset

October 3, 2013
AOS s1e10 0:18:40 Morning when Peterson comes out of room/bus till the middle of the night

October 5, 2013
AOS s1e11 0:00:00 "its been 36 hours since agent coulson was taken"

October 6, 2013
AOS s1e11 0:40:56 Peterson wakes up
AOS s1e12 0:00:00

October 7, 2013
AOS s1e12 0:27:30 Approximate time. Midnight is subjective. Ends during daytime

October 8, 2013
AOS s1e13 0:00:00 Coulson's intro. Assume the Italian agent flashback occurred on the previous day since coulson is telling the story in the morning and he met with the Italian during the daytime.

October 9, 2013
AOS s1e13 0:40:54 Mike Peterson in the morning
AOS s1e14 0:00:00
AOS s1e14 0:38:27 Sunset in Europe/Day in Death Valley

October 11, 2013
AOS s1e15 0:02:35 Day at the Hub (Europe presumably) (Coulson has taken personal time for "a couple days straight" To compress the time line I am assuming that one of those two days is today) bikers have also done 2 reported robberies

October 12, 2013
AOS s1e15 0:24:21 morning after ward sleeps with Loraine, ends at night

October 13, 2013
AOS s1e16 0:00:00 Morning, Sitwell leaves

October 11, 2014
Cap 2 0:00:00 Cap 2 begins
 
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If someone can double check my work and see if I inadvertently added a day (or hopefully two) then It will all work out like magic. I think the intent of the show was for it to be spread over months, however i didnt see that explicitly stated and as far as the viewers know these adventures could be occurring back to back to back. I agree that the "all winter" comment is likely a retcon. I just hope that it isnt retconned again in age of ultron. I'm also curious if anyone knows where the mid season "its been months" reference is. I missed it. Also note that my time stamps may be a tad off as I am going off of my off the air recordings which are definitely not perfect.
 
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Bob_A_Mickelson said:
If someone can double check my work and see if I inadvertently added a day (or hopefully two) then It will all work out like magic. I think the intent of the show was for it to be spread over months, however i didnt see that explicitly stated and as far as the viewers know these adventures could be occurring back to back to back. I agree that the "all winter" comment is likely a retcon. I just hope that it isnt retconned again in age of ultron. I'm also curious if anyone knows where the mid season "its been months" reference is. I missed it. Also note that my time stamps may be a tad off as I am going off of my off the air recordings which are definitely not perfect.
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Amazing job. Absolutely amazing.

And the "winter" mention was definitely a retcon. Are you sure Simmons didn't mention Skye had been with them a few months? I could've swore she mentioned that (I think sometime around episodes 6-10, or possibly even after she was shot).

As for the assumption of time passed between seasons, it's based on the "chasing us all winter" line. That seems to indicate Talbot has been pursuing Coulson and his team for 2-3 months at least since the events of eps 16-17 and CA-TWS.

Skye also mentions she's been working on the alien code/glyphs thing for a month. I presume Coulson gave her the task a month or two after he began writing the glyphs as seen at the very end of Season 1.
 
Just doublechecked for ya Irish.

In episode 114, "T.A.H.I.T.I." While Simmons and Triplett are looking over Skye's body, Triplett asks, 'You go back aways?' and Simmons says, 'Not really, only a few months.'

So you're right. But with this new retcon in Season 2, we'll now just have to assume Simmons doesn't know the difference between months and weeks. ;)
 
Spoon_Wielder said:
Just doublechecked for ya Irish. In episode 114, "T.A.H.I.T.I." While Simmons and Triplett are looking over Skye's body, Triplett asks, 'You go back aways?' and Simmons says, 'Not really, only a few months.' So you're right. But with this new retcon in Season 2, we'll now just have to assume Simmons doesn't know the difference between months and weeks. ;)
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Thanks, Spoon. I knew she had mentioned that, just couldn't remember the specific episode.

Thanks for confirming that. But you're right, it's definitely been retconned or overlooked.
 
Bob_A_Mickelson said:
I cant seem to find a way to cut two days for the AOS s1e3 - s1e16 timeline. Anyone else have any luck?
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I haven't sat down to marathon through Season 1 yet, will in the next few weeks.

I doubt there'll be a way to squeeze it all in and have it make sense. Have to chalk it up to a production error/retcon based on the date shown in CA-TWS and AoS 2x01's "chasing us all winter" comment.
 
Captain France said:
Hey hey, it's been some months ^^

Just watched the episode of AoS-S2, and already saw an error in it..

We have the flashback happening in "Austria, 1945", but later on the picture of the first item 084, it's stated "Austria 1944".
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Just watched it over again and I didn't catch this error...
 
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